Good for you! I, myself, did some tests, where (in the final mix) I just couldn't tell the "real" and the "fake" apart. Wow, that's quite a difference then! You must be extremely skilled. They almost all have a doubler section which is essentially a throwback to the eventide H3000 - the box that started it all. Just take a look at any of the Waves all-in-one vocal plugins. Its SUPER common on background vocals and even in conjunction with actual doubling on leads. This is usually dialed WAY back unless your name is Ozzy Osborne. They are then vocaligned to near perfection making the effect much slicker than in previous decades where the natural timing differences made it more obvious.ĭoubler plugins really get used more as stereo chorus effect adding width and motion. Many pop/rock/country chorus vocals are physically doubled almost by default. I do have some widening techniques to spread the lead vocal across the middle 30-45 degrees of the stereo field but that is usually unrelated to doubling.īoth techniques are wildly popular. Real doubling is far more common than most realize and I agree it typically sounds better if that is what one is wanting to create. I'd just urge you though, if you do prefer real double, is 3 minutes of boredom really insufferable to get a better sound?
Not that you'd necessarily prefer real doubles to the Beatles style sound, it's all personal preference. I'd imagine the modern digital methods would get infinitely closer. The waves one does get that Beatles sound big time but do you really think it sounds like a real double? I don't think it does at all. Yeah Lennon, like me, only liked hearing his own voice when doubled. Well, because it bores the freaking hell out of me!Īnd funny enough, that’s what John Lennon expressed to his engineer at the time, who then came up with the original Reel ADT Abbey Road I sometimes get questions like: “Why don’t you just sing it twice?” Not the real thing, but carefully configured to a certain type of voce it will be convincingly enough in the final mix, and it will save time. But then I found Waves Reel ADT which as far as I am concerned is the closest you can get. After all, it’s all basically about pitch, timing and accentuation.
It bothered me for years that I couldn’t save time by letting some plugin do the job. Backing vocals, always at least two times (each). As far as the iZotope demonstration video goes, it sound pretty promising, I must say!Īs a strict routine, I have always doubled vocal/voices, even if I wouldn’t necessarily use it all in the final mix.
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